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...Prepared. Libertarians, unlike most Americans, believe what they are saying, and are apt to get emotional. What you call taxation they will call "stealing." When Clark writes of the draft, he can't restrain himself: "A government that would try to draft (young people) would be little better than a kidnapper," he states. When they talk about the ideal society, they're apt to point to Espiritu Santo, a few square miles of sand that an American businessmen tried to turn into a bite-sized tax shelter earlier this year. If you leave yourself open, the tendency to analogy...
...series' name comes from the Greek word for the ordered universe, the antithesis of chaos. It is an apt choice. Cosmos is nothing less than Sagan's attempt to make sense out of what is for many people the hopelessly baffling world of 20th century science. To unfold his story he roves through two millennia of scientific progress, often shuttling back and forth over the centuries like some Wellsian time traveler. He travels the earth as well. One moment he is seated in a café on the Aegean island of Samos, home of Pythagoras and Aristarchus, explaining the first stirrings...
...over such relatively simple issues for those waging it had so many dangerous, unpredictable and complex ramifications. A large match was lit last week in a very flammable part of the globe. The uncontrolled fires that now darken the skies over the refineries of Basra and Abadan are apt symbols for the gulf...
There has been a body of muted opinion since the first days of Carter's stewardship contending that behind the beatific smile and inside the big heart lurks a nasty impulse, most often contained by success but apt to escape in times of stress and failure. Thus did Carter say unfortunate things publicly about Hubert Humphrey, Ted Kennedy and Cyrus Vance. But almost always the calm returned, and for the most part Carter appeared to practice the good will that he preached and prayed...
That goal is apt to be complicated by a severe case of stagflation, which has dropped the growth rate from an average of 9% in the mid-1970s to a record low of minus 5.9% in the second quarter of this year. Chun must also take care not to alienate the business community, which is vital to his political success. Allows Kim: "He has been letting our business men do their business and has not at all been interfering in their affairs...